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Each every single counrty in this world had the chance to close the boarder early. They all failed. And things like that should be the solution now? Seriously? Even with the wristband people transfer the virus. So it's totaly useless.

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Here in Germany, the government called Corona "a trick by the political right" to "achieve border closing". We only closed borders way after every country around us did. Because ideology is more important than human lives, apparently.

Switzerland never really closed the boarder because every day about 7000 people come from italy to switzerland for work in healthcare.

Same here, people working across the border get special permits. But they do need permits if they want to cross.

Closing border refers to closing it for regular people.

At least post a source for such a claim. M understanding is that they managed. to act relatively good, given the information and circumstances.

It was in the newspapers in February and first half of March.

The "big switch" was 14to 15 of March. The MSN here ran a fake story about Trump wanting to buy some German pharma company (all large newspapers retracted the story around March 17), but it was enough to get people sufficiently distracted to completely change their previous policy.

It was pretty interesting to watch how it was orchestered.

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